English Explanatory Dictionary

satem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to a Proto-Indo-European language group that produced sibilants from a series of palatovelar stops.
adj
  1. Alternative letter-case form of satem.

Word forms

satem

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬙𐬆𐬨 (satəm, “hundred”). The canonical example of a word that changed Proto-Indo-European palatovelar */ḱ/ into sibilant /s/ by the 3rd millennium BCE, as opposed to Latin centum (“hundred”). Doublet of hundred and centum.

Antonyms

centum

Derived words

satemisation satemization
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